Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-12-10
Massey TAXES colnoRr.
From the Toledo Blade. /


The eleck.hun in Noe York Ellis us here in
Washington with delite which words kin
hardly eggspress- His Eggsiency. the Presi-
dent, is quite another man, and the entire
Dimoerisy nv Washington is another man.
They eommenst changin to another man the
mint they commenst getting the nooxe.
Why? 1t got so rid Nv the Mugwumps-it
relieved US Nv a inkucus. The gineral ia
vor Nv eileen shirts and soI that pervaied 'em
wuznt natural to me, and | mist more than
any one kin appreshate, that pungent favor
of plug chawin terbacker grated onto moo
whiskey, by which Demosratic assemblage
pure and simple adyertises its whereabouts.
Therefore, doorin the entire campane Nv
1884 | wuI nncomforble while l wuz in the
East To be in the presence Nv Geo, Willy
um Curtis, cleen-shaved and eileen shirted.
with white packit hankercher--to hev him
Stare at me when l drownded a fiy on the
carpet with terbacker joose, or when did
any little thing like that which is the pride
NV the free Dimocrisy Nv Kentucky, ii wu1
not comforble. / never liked him since he
keerfully wiped his hand with Handkerchief
after shakin hands with me, and then put
that hankereher away in his cote pocket and
took out fresh wun for imuiejit yoose. He
| is altogether too pertikeler fur nv yoose, and
his associates aint partikle better. There
| for, inasmuch ez this elecshnn gifts US rid NV
them forever, we rejoice ez wun relieved Nv
a CRATE burden.
We had suspected for some time that all
the strenth they controlled wuz wat Their hats
kivered, fur we coodent see how any body
Good be simple enuff to foller them into our
camp in search Nv "politikle purity" and
inezmuch ez they wuzn't Nv any yoose to us
we determined TO hist EN-. It's ruther irwin
on US to be held to anything decent, anyhow.
So when Geo Wilyum and The Moo York
Eyenin Post and the rest Nv the MugwumI
cend NV the skinner demannkd that we throw
Fellows, the Tammany candidate for Distrik.
} Attorney, overheard, on the skore that be het
bin a partner Nv Boss Tweed's and he'd new
J er repentid Nv it, and wuz in with the boodler
now, it wuz our chance. We he'd his Eggs
lency write letter sayin that he Good see NJ
reason why the Dimocrisy shoodent supper
Fellows and moreover he sent his check TO
a round sum to assist in electin him. Tn,
lice that wen the choice wuz atwiIt Tamman,
| Hall and Geo. Wilyum Curtis Their Good be
t mnit's paws, or hesitashun. The lice tina
I we shood trade off the lower part Of No
f York, wich gives any MAJORITY We want, flu
. a set NV cleen-shaved Sundy -skool teachers
t Now we are fixed ez We want to be. W
II new the Solo SOuth, wien heZ shotguns III
. reezens for its politikle ackshen, and we he
n Tammany Hall without incumbrance---State
h Rites in the South and Free Whisky in No
2, York. We are invincible, thus fortified, an
# in wat other way are we? Them's the kin
" NV Dimocrisy we need, the two kinds we he
), in the South and Moo York. Oh, it WI
e glorious Old times hev cum agin. Whe
), the Mugwumps proved that Fellows wuz
partner Nv Tweed's, and wuz instroomentle
IS clerrin the boodlers, the word wuz past alon
n the line:
IT "Our candidate proved to be boodler an
n it is hurtin us somewat. Brewers and Di
d tillers to the front with more money to max
Is good the loss. ~
% And they responded nobly. Fhe more
l. wuz proved that Fellows wuznt fit to ho
- that any other offs, the more the likk,
r intrest contributed, and the more the s'loor
vomited out their reserves. And then no
glorious His Eggsiency come in with his lie
ter endorsin Fellows, and his Civil Serv
= cheque to help out the expenses. Ha ha
Mr.. Curtis 1.-The President better'n h
. party" hay? Why. Their amt heeler in Il
, Sixth Ward rank enuff wich woodn't be ju
e titied in sappin him on the back and cali
+ him "Grove.'
g Things SCOT me, they do. Five yeers mol
. Nv this sort NV thing, and shell feel ez II
:, | he'd my share, be reconciled to death al
y go hence entirely satisfied.
h PErRGLEsM V. NAsBY, p. NJ,
witch is Postmaster and General Adviser